Humanity Above Bureaucracy: How Buurtzorg Reinvented Dutch Home Care
Speaking at the 2017 Happy Workplaces conference, Madelon van Tilburg of Buurtzorg Nederland and Brendan Martin of Public World detail the advantages of a flexible, human-focused approach to home care.
Madelon has been working for Dutch home care organisation, Buurtzorg, since 2011. Buurtzorg differs from her previous employers in that it lets nurses exercise freedom and responsibility in the job they’re trained for. Brendan founded Public World with the aim of improving public service performance in the UK.
View Madelon and Brendan’s full talk below.
Ethical Investment: It Has Paid Off For Me
Recently I’ve found myself several times in lively discussions about whether choosing to invest ethically means accepting a lower financial return.
Five Good News Stories (March 2021 Edition)
We’re currently enduring the worst public health crisis in more than 100 years. Life on earth has undergone many dramatic changes and a return to ‘normal’ still feels a long way off. But we do live in profoundly progressive times, with modern humans continuing to make amazing discoveries and breakthroughs.
Here are five good news stories to provide respite from the doom and gloom of a regular news bulletin.
